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  • Frontier Assemblages

    The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia

    Edited by Jason Cons, Michael Eilenberg ...
    Series series Antipode Book Series
    Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in AsiaPresents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkagesFilled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the fieldExplores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Sensitive Space

    Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border

    by Padma Kaimal, Jason Cons, Anand A. Yang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic and historical analysis, Jason Cons argues that these spaces are key locations for rethinking the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was to engulf Sri Lanka for decades. With her was her lifelong friend, Ajanthi, also aged 17. Leaving behind them their shocked middle-class families, the teenagers had become part of the Tamil ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of India

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  • The Moghul

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    THE MOGHUL was immediately a European bestseller, optioned by Indian producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with the BBC.Based on real people (ca. 1620) – THE MOGHUL begins in a rip-roaring sea battle north of Bombay in which the vastly out-gunned adventurer, Brian Hawksworth, ship's captain and emissary of King James, blows away a flotilla of Portuguese ... Read more

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  • Gandhi

    A Manga Biography

    by Kazuki Ebine ...
    Through his quietly powerful leadership and influential use of nonviolent resistance in India's struggle against the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi became one of the most revered figures of the modern era. While history has recorded Gandhi's words and deeds, the man himself has been eclipsed by maxims of virtuosity that seem to have little resonance in our everyday lives. In Gandhi, the third volume ... Read more

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  • Mahatma Gandhi

    His Life and Ideas

    by Charles F. Andrews ...
    An intimate biography of one of the greatest social andreligious reformers of the modern world."Gandhi's work in nonviolence was comprehensive and not simply confined to politics or human rights. It was about building positive relationships based on respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation. It was about eliminating exploitation of all kinds and creating harmony."—from the Foreword by ... Read more

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  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy

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    Series series Indian Thinkers
    Raja Rammohun Roy has come to be called the 'Maker of Modern India. Without giving up what was good and noble in the past, he laid the foundations for a great future. He put an end to the horrible custom of burning the living wife with the dead husband. He was a great scholar and an independent thinker. He advocated the study of English, Science, Western Medicine and Technology. He spent his money ... Read more

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  • The Sikhs of the Punjab

    by J. S. Grewal ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of India
    In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis ... Read more

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  • Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59

    Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude

    by William Forbes-Mitchell ...
    In "Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59," William Forbes-Mitchell provides a vivid and firsthand account of the tumultuous events surrounding the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Written with a reflective tone, the text delves into the complexities of colonial encounters, revealing the duality of admiration and repulsion felt by the British officers. Forbes-Mitchell's narrative weaves personal ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern South Asia

    Politics, States, Diasporas

    by Ian Talbot ...
    Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of an Archive

    A Scholar's Passage to India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ... Read more

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